[aaus-list] Askold Melnyczuk at KGB Apr 10 2008 - 7:00pm

[Alexandra Hrycak]

Dear Colleagues:

Askold Melnyczuk is giving a reading at KGB Bar April 10.

Details below.

Best,
Alexandra Hrycak

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KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, NYC 10003
Behind The Book: Askold Melnyczuk and Felicia Sullivan
Start: Apr 10 2008 - 7:00pm
End: Apr 10 2008 - 9:00pm
http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-04-10_behind_the_book.html

Askold Melnyczuk is the author of House of Widows, which will appear 
next year.  His novel Ambassador of the Dead was one of The Los Angeles 
Times Best Books of 2002. His first novel, What Is Told, was a New York 
Times Notable Book.  He has published a novella, Blind Angel, about the 
life of Rimbaud and has received a Lila Wallace Writer’s Award and the 
McGinnis Prize in fiction.  His work has appeared in The New York Times, 
The Gettysburg Review, The LA Times, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, 
and The Nation.  Founding editor of Agni, he is currently publisher of 
Arrowsmith Books.  Mr. Melnyczuk has taught at Harvard University and 
currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the 
Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars.

Felicia Sullivan is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.  Her work has 
been published in Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, Redivider, 
Pindeldyboz, Ballyhoo Stories, Publisher’s Weekly, the anthologies, 
Homewrecker – An Atlas of Illicit Loves (Soft Skull Press, 2005) and in 
Money Changes Everything (Doubleday, January 2007), among other 
publications.  Recently, an excerpt from her memoir, The Sky Isn’t 
Visible From Here, was a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2006 
collection.  She has been awarded fellowships from Tin House magazine & 
SLS Literary Seminars. She is the founder of the literary journal, Small 
Spiral Notebook, and is also the co-founder of the Non-Fiction series at 
KGB Bar in NYC.

MORE:
Behind the Book is a literacy nonprofit working with low-income students 
in NYC public schools. Our mission is to excite children and young 
adults about reading. Working in the 1st-12th grades, we bring authors 
and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and 
a new generation of book readers.
www.behindthebook.org

http://www.kgbbar.com/bar
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Alexandra Hrycak
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


E-mail: hrycak at reed.edu		
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Personal web page: http://academic.reed.edu/sociology/faculty/hrycak/